In state white female
Major: Business
3.87 CSU GPA
SAT: 2090/2400, 1360/1600, Math: 680 Reading: 680 Writing:730
8-12 hours of paid work per week
Multiple leadership positions in sports, ecs, and volunteer work
11 APs, 5 honors taken in high school
Chance me:) CP SLO is my first choice, hoping ED gives me a better chance
High match due to below average CSU GPA. Did you include 9th grades in your CP CSU GPA, since they also consider 9th grades?
@Gumbymom what does high match mean? As compared to match and low match and so on. I did not include 9th grade because on the CP SLO app it explicitly states “courses taken in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.”
High Match is less chance than a Match school but not a Reach school. ED could help your chances.
I am positive that Cal Poly SLO uses 9-11th grades in their GPA calculation.
This is from the Cal Poly SLO website:
Academic Performance
College prep GPA Calculated by Cal Poly for 9th -11th grade coursework designated on the application (with honors points granted for courses designated as “honors,” “college,” “advanced placement" or “international baccalaureate” on a high school transcript, for up to eight semesters).
http://admissions.calpoly.edu/applicants/freshman/criteria.html
All other CSU’s only use 10-11th grades, since 12th grades are not available at time of application.
Enter your high school GPA for all approved college prep “a-g” courses taken in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.
If you need help calculating your GPA, you may use CSUMentor’s GPA calculator. Please have a copy of your high school transcript or a listing of all your courses and grades in order to accurately calculate your GPA.
i just copy and pasted this straight from the app!? @Gumbymom
Cal poly SLO will recalculate your CSU GPA using the 9th grades. On the application, you enter in your CSU GPA using 10-11th grades. You will also enter in your 9th grades which SLO will use to calculate their GPA. I was just wanted to know if your 9th grades will change your CSU GPA significantly. Also how can you enter in 12th grades when you do not have them? I have gone through CSU admissions to SLO and many other CSU’s these past few years with my son’s and niece and believe me, SLO uses 9th grades in their GPA calculation.
oh okay they recalculate it themselves, i was just going off what it said on the app
Yes, SLO will recalculate the GPA since all the other CSU’s use the CSU Mentor method.
Just to add more confusion, SLO uses an MCA score instead of an Eligibility index to make their admission decisions.
Here is the information if you want to calculate your MCA score:
The maximum GPA they will use is 4.2, even though you can have a higher calculated CP GPA. A 4.2 is worth 2250 MCA points. Thus, multiply your CP GPA by 535.7 and you’ll get your MCA points for GPA.
The next biggest thing is test scores. The odd thing, likely because they wanted it to total a nice round number, is that the max score is 1650, even though the max SAT score is 1600. Multiply the total of your best SAT CR and your best SAT math by 1.03125 to get your MCA test points. If you took the ACT, they convert and vice versa.
The third largest section is the class rigor score, worth 750 points. In this section you get zero points for meeting the minimum admission requirements and adders for more than the minimum. The bonuses in order of power are (min semesters/max total semesters/bonus per extra semester/total possible bonus): math 6/10/125/500 (note: stats and finite do not count), lab science 4/8/50/200, English 8/10/50/100, foreign language 4/8/25/100, visual performance 2/4/25/50, no bonus points for social sciences or electives. As with GPA, you can actually score higher than the maximum, but 750 is the most they will count.
Finally, work and ECs, worth 350 points. Work (hours per week/bonus): 0/0, 1-5/20, 6-10/40, 11-15/60, 16-20/80, 21+/100, add 50 points if work is major related. ECs (hours per week/bonus): 0/0, 1-5/30, 6-10/60, 11-15/90, 16-20/120, 21+/150, add 60 points for leadership role.
My MCA score is 4,205.659
4500 is a solid score for SLO so you are on the lower side. Much will depend upon the competitiveness of the ED applicants for your major. I will keep my chances at a High Match.